This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.I've been using TDM for several years. I found the barely-working, long-neglected version 2.1 to still be superior to Roxio's TiVo Transfer (I own Toast Titanium 10). I am still having a problem where if I select say three episodes of a show and choose "add show to queue" they end up scrambled in the queue. This is still a great app doing one show at a time, but if you're working on it again, a fix for this would be great!

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.A whole order of improvement in the interface of the previous version, TIVoDecode Manager 2 is simple and effective. The download and encode to MPG4 in one operation is a big time saver and works perfectly for me. This is just the thing to get one's TIVO recordings into iTunes & iPod and it doesn't cost a dime. Simply perfect.

I wonder if the difficulties others seem to be having with this excellent program are network related or due to non-compatible TIVO hardware. After all, it only supports a pretty limited range of un-hacked TIVO models.

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.I've downloaded each release of this program only to constantly think they were close but just not there yet. This version 2.0 has now really delivered. I was able to do some cumbersome workarounds to get my Tivo files viewable, but the quality was bad and the effort was way too much. I tried version 2.0 of this program today and was amazed at how clean the functionality is and how amazing the video quality was of the converted file. I generally use EyeTV but there are times I want to record and save two programs being broadcast at the same time and end up using Tivo for one of them. TivoDecode Manager is a winner of a program. It is an embarassment to Tivo that they didn't provide such a program to all of us long ago. You can rely on this application to be simple to use and provide you excellent quality files. JOB WELL DONE!

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.Sweet! Congratulations to everyone responsible for this milestone. This deserves MAX STARS because a handful of puzzle solving heroes managed to provide something Tivo promised, and has long failed to provide to the Mac community all these years.

FINALLY, we have Tivo-to-Go functionality on our Macs. No Tivo hacking required. This actually seems to download from the tivo and remove the Tivo encryption in one step.

After wasting a day trying to get this neat little app to recognize my "Tivo media access key" I realized I was using the serial number instead. Dooh! Plugged in the right number and things worked perfectly for me.

Well, almost perfectly. I've only downloaded about four shows so far, and one seemed to lock up in the final few MB of the show. Still, I was able to view the partial file just fine thanks in VLC media player and iSquint didn't have any trouble converting the MPG into an iPod compatible MP4. The missing part of the file was stuff I'd have fast forwarded through anyway.

Actually, this is even better than Tivo-to-Go because, unlike the poor PeeCee slobs using Tivo-to-Go, we're free of Microsoft Media Player. We can launch -- and convert -- our downloaded Tivo files on any hardware or application robust enough to handle MPG files.

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.I started of using the command line version of tivodecode.
What the developer has done in a short time that the tivodecode has been available is nothing short of fantastic!

I haven't had a problem with any of the releases and the updates have fixed any minor bug that have been reported. He has been very open to suggestions (thank you for the progress bar!) and has boiled down what started as a Terminal command funtion, into a nice Mac like GUI that anyone can use.

Documentation (provided on the website) is good, and with all the buzz on other websites there are plenty of folks willing to help or guided you in the right direction.

I just installed the previous version on my SOs Powerbook and it worked flawlessly. She is also not the most computer literate person in the world and even she can use and understand what is going on.

If you are a Mac user and you have Tivo, download this NOW (along with VLC) and free your Tivo files like Windoze users have been for the last (approx) 2 years. With this you will have "food" for that video iPod.

My only question now is, if it took the Tivo community this short a time to come up with this solution, why couldn't Tivo (the buisness? I know the the reason. Just want to hear them (the buisness) say it.

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